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portion of the annual income available for the purchase of new
books. As everything has been done to ensure the most
economical administration, it seems that if the libraries are to be
developed, as indicated above, the Committee must look to some
other source for means to supplement the general funds. The
penny rate will be ultimately more productive, but the Committee
desire immediate results. They therefore turn their attention to
donations. They remember with gratitude the generous aid
experienced recently, when providing the first stock of books for
the Tooting Library, and they take this opportunity of appealing
to the public to assist them in extending the usefulness of the
three libraries by donations of money or suitable books.
Signed on behalf of the Streatham and Tooting Divisional
Committee,
CLIFF. M. ASHDOWN,
Chairman.
29th June, 1903.